Sep 18, 2012

TIME has just published it's annual list of the top 50 sites and services, and we're honored that LastPass made the cut - first, no less! (Okay so it's not ordered, but we'll take it.)

But on a serious note, we're thrilled to be recognized as the leading password manager, and we continue to strive to provide a top-notch service that helps make online life a whole lot more manageable. And as always, we're thankful for our awesome users for their ongoing use and promotion of LastPass.

Sep 17, 2012

In response to a number of high-profile breaches (including LinkedIn, Last.fm, and the Apple UDIDs), we've provided LastPass users with tools to check if their data is on the leaked lists, and have notified users directly as we've discovered their compromised data. We wanted to take this a step further, and partnered with a company dedicated to finding and aggregating all leaks as they're occurring, to provide a much more comprehensive service.

Today we're excited to announce our partnership with PwnedList to offer LastPass Sentry, a new feature that will help LastPass users be more proactive about their online security.

We then recommend updating the password for the affected account, and any other accounts using that password, using LastPass to generate a new, strong password.

The feature is available for all free and Premium users, as well as corporate Enterprise users, and is currently opt-out via the email notifications. In the case of Enterprise users, both the Enterprise administrator and the affected employee will receive notifications that a match has been found.

We're excited that the feature has already generated positive feedback. LastPass Enterprise customer Matthew Wittkin of MoreVisibility commented, "LastPass already helps us to better control and protect our digital assets. With this new feature, our administrators and employees know immediately if any company passwords have been compromised, allowing us to update them within seconds. We hope nothing like this will ever come to pass, but it gives me extra peace of mind knowing that, with LastPass, I'll be the first to know!"

We have plans to further integrate the service into the LastPass security challenge, so we can check not only the email address that you use for your LastPass account itself, but perform a local check of the entirety of your stored data. We also plan to increase the frequency of our database checks to work towards real-time notifications.

What do you think of LastPass Sentry? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!

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